The Internet Archive Is In Danger...

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! The Internet archive is one of the many resources me and other channels use. It's a service that allows us to preserve files and web history for the foreseeable future. With a recent loss in their current lawsuit regarding lending of digital media which could change how distribution is handled in the future and the expensive nature of this suit could possibly put the greatest achievement in preservation at risk. Thanks for watching!
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[ethanbell]

If internet archive shuts down, we will lose millions of books, movies, video games and other media. This is gonna be a huge loss for the lost media community

[Mr_Pmg_Gaming]

As someone that restored his childhood computer recently, internet archive was the ONLY place I could find the drivers and restore disc I needed. Someone in 2020 cared enough to upload the discs, and without it my old Pavilion would have likely remained a paperweight. Internet Archive should be treated like a digital library, free from corporate or governmental interference.

[atch]

Internet Archive is easily one of the most important websites on the internet.

[JackedThor-so]

This lawsuit literally made me donate to the archive - I suggest anyone reading this to do the same.

[zBrainlezz]

Mutahar didn't directly say this, but he did imply it: the success of this lawsuit against the Internet Archive sets a precedent by which other corporations, possibly in fields other than book publishing, could go after the Archive for hosting and/or freely distributing literally any piece of digital data they could otherwise make money off of. If enough corporations do so, they very well could effectively kill the entire project. *That's* the really scary part of all this.

[vgf-]

I don't understand why certain people are hellbent on destroying preservation of any kind. It's pretty disgusting to think that the Internet Archive's future is in jeopardy.

[captainhydrodus]

This is why I insist on everyone archiving EVERYTHING no matter how small

[nightshadehelis]

Nobody should have the power to rewrite history. It's disgusting that websites can be taken down just for having the audacity of a different narrative.

[The_Slavstralian]

Wouldn't it be great if there was a law that basically stated "if a company stops maintaining, or making available an IP it loads the right to litigate against someone else maintaining it"

[Ganein]

IMO, The Internet Archive should be considered a Digital Monument that was afforded all the protections National and International Landmarks have.

[gavrielshemesh]

Maybe we need an internet archive archive

[TheSilverwing]

The fact that we might be witnessing the modern version of the burning of the library of alexandria saddens me so much. And we might not be able to prevent it either because a bunch of ancient uglies don't understand the importance of media preservation. I wish I could be my old optimistic self again but it's getting harder every day

[cfljeff]

The Internet Archive is literally preserving human history. Why would someone want to take down.

[Tanookicatoon]

This is genuinely one of the biggest thing I'm honestly worried about today. This is seriously going to be like the digital burning of Alexandria if the archive goes down.

[atlas_]

10:58 That literally gave me chills. Even just thinking about it is sarrowing. Legal systems really have to recognize when a project is integral to human causes and actually too big to fail and punish and compensate accordingly to prevent the demise of it.

[lunarnocturne]

It's crazy man. Without your Nostalgic Web Browsing series, i never would've discovered this website and the importance of digital preservation.

[zetafish]

All these companies get mad at people for pirating or "allegedly" pirating. But what did they expect? If they're not gonna re release these things and let them die to time of course we're gonna pirate them and of course we're gonna preserve them. Someone has to.

[cutekittypetter]

The day the Archive goes dark, the internet is doomed.

[Osakarmakun]

Thanks to the Internet Archive, i found a book from 1888, who describes how was my city in those years, and it really makes me angry that companies just want to destroy history.

[warmpianist]

What's horrible is that sometimes the corporates don't even have these materials available, yet they are actively preventing us from having these materials.